Research Catalog

Title

Animaltown : beasts in medieval urban space / edited by Alice M. Choyke, Gerhard Jaritz.

Publication

Oxford, UK : BAR Publishing, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Choyke, Alice Mathea
• Jaritz, Gerhard, 1949-

Description

vii, 209 pages : illustrations, charts, maps, plans; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 2858

Uniform Title

BAR international series ; 2858.

Alternative Title

Beasts in medieval urban space

Subject

• Europa
• Human-animal relationships > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Urban animals > Social aspects > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Urban animals > Symbolic aspects > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Archaeology, Medieval > Congresses
• Zoomorphism > In art > To 1500 > Congresses
• Symbolism in architecture > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Symbolism in art > History > To 1500 > Congresses
• Archaeology, Medieval
• Human-animal relationships
• Stadt
• Tiere
• Mittelalterliche Archäologie

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• " ... comprises peer-reviewed papers based on a conference held in 2008, 'Fauna and Medieval Urban Space', at the Medieval Studies Department of the Central European University and organized by the editors ..."--Page 1.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / Alice M. Choyke -- Interpreting urban animal contexts. What makes a medieval urban animal bone assemblage look urban? Reflections as feature types and recurrent patterns from lower Austria and Vienna / Günther Karl Kunst -- Like a headless chicken: meaning, medium and context in medieval urban taphonomy / László Bartosiewicz -- Horseflesh and beaver pelts: aspects of faunal studies in medieval Novgorod and its region / Mark Maltby -- The Diet of Ipswich from the Middle Saxon through the medieval periods / Pam J. Crabtree -- Animals as symbol and urban reality. Dogs in church / Gerhard Jaritz -- Pigs in medieval cities: Saint Anthony's unusual attribute / Laura Fenelli -- Animals as presents in late-medieval Livonia / Anu Mänd -- Norm and practice and urban animals. Oxen, pigs and sheep in the medieval city: analysis of regulations concerning domestic animals in statutes of medieval Dalmation towns / Hrvoje Kekez -- All the priests' horses and all the priests' hens...: animals in the households of late medieval Hungarian urban clergy / Katalin Szende -- "Drunkenness is the mother of forgetfulness, anger causes injuries": animal welfare in late-medieval English urban society / Briony Aitchison -- Suburban husbandry: animals in the landscape of Trim, County Meath, Ireland / Fiona Beglane -- Domestic and wild animals in urban settings. Faunal exploitation patterns in urban settlements in medieval Moldavia / Luminita Bejenaru -- Animals in medieval urban lives: York as a case study / Terry O'Connor -- Animals in Italian medieval towns: from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages / Frank Salvadori -- Urban jungle? Wild mammals in medieval towns / Aleksander Pluskowski -- Animals and the urban elite. What is a peacock doing in a medieval city? Analysing visual representations of animals in urban space in the late Middle Ages / Isabella Nicka -- "...For I have brought to you the fugitive animals of the desert": animals and representations of the Constantinopolitan Imperial Authority in Two Poems by Manuel Philes / Florin Leonte -- Zooarchaeological research from an elite urban building in medieval Durrës (Albania) / Antonietta Buglione, Giovanni De Venuto and Barbara Sassi -- Meat consumption by the Christian population in the Buda Castle Town district in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / László Daróczi-Szabó and Márta Daróczi-Szabó -- List of contributors.

ISBN

• 9781407315720
• 1407315722

LCCN

2017380861

OCLC

• ocn987305981
• 987305981
• SCSB-1885661

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library